Best way to clear gorse

[openspaceman]

Using horse as an animal feed, Christ were they sadistic

 

Pardon?

 

Dog food was often horsemeat anyway.

 

Assuming your typo was hitting the H key instead of G: I doubt it would have been for horse but rather for ruminants. The bruising machine made the leaves palatable.

 

Being a legume it will have high protein and composted should be a nitrogenous fertilizer, this benefit is lost by burning.

 

Gorse is an indicator of high potash and phosphorus status, so the land only needs a bit of nitrogen and grasses should out compete the gorse.

 

One of the reasons for swaling would have been to produce new gorse shoots but most common grazings had become infertile as a result of repaeated over grazing that they would not have supported much gorse

 

 

...and there's a lesson there for the age of stupid thread: the tragediy of the (unregulated) commons.

Edited January 1, 2016 by openspaceman